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Basic Software Skills Tutorial<br />

About This Tutorial This tutorial will:<br />

♦ Teach you to create, save, print, export, and import SDS plate documents<br />

♦ Familiarize you with the basic components of the SDS software interface<br />

♦ Explain how to customize and arrange the user interface to suit your needs<br />

♦ Teach you to use the hand-held bar code reader<br />

♦ Provide you with time-saving devices to increase your effectiveness on the SDS<br />

software<br />

Lesson 1: Using<br />

Plate Documents<br />

Using the Online Version of the Basic Skills Tutorial<br />

The SDS Online Help features a version of this tutorial. If you prefer to follow the<br />

online tutorial open the SDS Online Help as follows:<br />

Step Action<br />

1 If not already active, launch the SDS software as explained on page 3-7.<br />

The SDS software workspace appears.<br />

2 From the Help menu, select SDS Online Help.<br />

3 When the SDS Online Help appears, select Basic Skills Tutorial from the list of<br />

options.<br />

4 Follow the directions displayed on your screen.<br />

Everyplaterunonthe<strong>ABI</strong>PRISM <strong>7900HT</strong> <strong>Sequence</strong> <strong>Detection</strong> <strong>System</strong> requires the<br />

creation of a plate document within the SDS software. A plate document is a virtual<br />

representation of a consumable used to contain samples and reagents during a<br />

sequence detection run. The software uses the plate document to coordinate the<br />

operation of the instrument (thermal cycling and data collection), to organize and store<br />

the data gathered during the PCR, and to analyze the run data.<br />

The SDS software can produce the two types of plate document files described in the<br />

table below.<br />

Plate Document File Extension Description<br />

<strong>ABI</strong> PRISM SDS<br />

Single Plate<br />

<strong>ABI</strong> PRISM SDS<br />

Template Document<br />

*.sds SDS Single Plate Documents are the primary file you<br />

will use. They are generated for every kind of<br />

experiment and are generally used to run plates.<br />

*.sdt Although optional, templates are useful as<br />

time-saving devices for experiments where samples<br />

are run on plates with identical assay configurations.<br />

The exercises on the following pages will familiarize you with the use of SDS plate<br />

documents.<br />

Getting Started 3-11

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